Issues/Policy

According to the United Nations (UN), Gender Based Violence (GBV), interchangeably used with Violence Against Women or at times domestic violence, is any act of violence that results in or is likely to result in […]

Another page was opened in the history of Ondo State on Wednesday, February 24, when Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu (SAN) took the oath for his second term of office. The Senior Advocate of Nigeria earned his […]

On February 13, 2021, an ethnic confrontation that had been brewing in some parts of Oyo State came to its climax. It resulted in a violent clash between some Yoruba indigenes and Hausa residents in […]

Things have gone totally awry in Nigeria; logic now walks on its head and the country has become a huge jungle where impunity reigns. It would be dishonest to suggest that it is any surprise […]

“It is with the help of the people of the city that intruders can overrun the city… The person who gave us this business is there among you. He is there with you. Wherever you […]

There is a deep-seated inter-ethnic hate in Nigeria that’s not going away. The animus, gall, and grudge are frenetically heating up the polity. Although Nigerians may seem to still be going about their daily businesses […]

After his long engagement in enriching and enchanting encounters with history, Prince Edward Olajide Akinbiyi (1933-2021) has himself slipped into the annals, passing on at the age of 87. He died in Lagos on Tuesday, […]

For as long as we can all remember there have been incessant calls for the restructuring of Nigeria along geo-political, socio-economic and fiscal lines, but very little is said about the restructuring that is actually […]

When Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State eventually quits office as governor, he may be remembered as the prober. The man has been examining, inquiring, questioning, and probing the activities and actions of his predecessor […]

The Nigerian Left has largely neglected, if not deliberately avoided a renewed ideological struggle which has become a strong factor in both the general turbulence and violence enveloping the whole country and the associated power […]

It was not long I drew attention to what I called harvest of deaths in the land. Specifically on 10 December, 2020, I wrote as follows: “Death has stalked the land, raiding villages and towns, […]

Events across the country in the recent times especially, the increase in the numbers of mobile terrorists masquerading as herders in dispensing their nefarious operation have shown clearly that open grazing in cattle business is […]

Things have gone totally awry in Nigeria; logic now walks on its head and the country has become a huge jungle where impunity reigns. It would be dishonest to suggest that it is any surprise […]

A few days ago, 42 persons abducted by bandits in Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State, regained their freedom. They included 27 students, three employees and 12 members of their family. But I do not […]

If, by now, Islamic cleric, Sheik Abubakar Gumi, has not categorically denied he told the Muslim bandits he has been meeting in recent times that their enemies are Christian “outsiders,” it means he said what […]

The Golden City Ministries The current video parading one of our own, Apostle Suleiman, has thrown me into mourning mood since I saw it earlier today. His unfortunate utterances as regards his ‘blessings’ (purchase of […]

Let us pause for a while and remind ourselves of what it would look like, if Nigerians lose their sense of reasoning and embrace anarchy in this age of technology advancement and the great awareness […]

Did the activities of militants in the Niger Delta qualify as crime? Hell Yes! Militancy and kidnapping were a profitable pursuit in that oil-rich region in the early 2000s. Kidnapping as an organised venture entered […]